Bug#979049: marco: debian/rules do not clean source tree

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Control: severity -1 minor

Hi Nicholas,

On  Sa 02 Jan 2021 12:29:53 CET, Nicholas Guriev wrote:

> Source: marco
> Version: 1.24.1-1
> Severity: serious
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> After the following commands run in an package tree dpkg-source sees source
> modifications.
>
>     export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=4"
>     debian/rules build
>     debian/rules clean
>
> Full difference between unpacked directory and after built & clean  
> is attached.
> It was obtained with `diff -U3 -r`.
>
> The bug has serious severity level because of volition "must" clause  
> in §4.9 of
> Debian Policy Manual.
>
> > clean (required)
> >
> > This must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may  
> > have had ...
>
> However, the bug has no impact on end users so I think in the future its
> severity may be lowered to minor.

Currently, it is not release critical if packages don't build and  
clean up afterwards in an idempotent way. Although, it is something  
nice-to-have.

Thus, lowering severity immediately to minor.

Mike
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